Railway tie and rail-fastening means therefor



April a, 19.24a A 1,489,960

G. F. A. OCHS RAILWAY TIE AND RAIL FASTENING MEANS THEIRE'IF'ORv Filed July 17, 1923 Lven'lbr. orge OCS,

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PATENT GEORGE F. A. OCHS, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

RAILWAY TIE AND RAIL-FASTENING MEANS THEREFOB.

Application filed July 17, 1923. Y Serial No. 652,074.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. A. OoHs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railway Ties and Rail-Fastening Means Therefor, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of the a metallic tie of skeleton form which will readily permit the placement and tamping of the ballast to secure the tie in place; and further to equip the tie with bearing blocks pocketed for the reception of rail fastening means, the pockets and the fastening means being constructed for co-operative action to securely hold the fastening means in place.

I/Vith' this general object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is illustrated without defining the limits of the invention.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged detail sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 2-2 of Figure l:

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4: is a perspective view of the rail engaging spike.

The tie consists of the spaced T-bars l of which the fianges 2 constitute the base so as to dispose the webs 3 upwardly, the latter at the ends constituting the middle laminee of bearing blocks Il, the bea-ring blocks on the two members l being spanned by the seat plates 5 serving -as rests for the rail G.

The bearing blocks 4; consist of a plurality of laminae comprising plates welded or otherwise secured together of which, as before stated, the extremities of the webs 3 constitute the middle one. The plates or laminas fla are the outside plates and the plates 4P intervening between the plates 4C and the web 3 are slotted as indicated at 7 for the reception of the rail fastening means or spikes 8, the slots 7 at the lower ends in divergent slots '2'a and the longitudinally split to provide terminals 8a entering the slots 7a, the wedge 9 defining the bottom walls ofthe slots 7 serving as a spreader to cause the arms 8a to spike being invention is to provide.

assume divergent positions when the spike is driven Vinto the slot constituting its seat in the block.

As a further means of securing, the upper walls 7b of the divergent slots 7 are roughened and the arms 8a on the corresponding faces of the spike are similarly roughened as at 8b.

By making the blocks la of laminar con struction, the laminas ib are easily slotted to provide slots of the correct contour for the reception of the spikes and the outer plates la and the extremities of the webs 3 act as opposite binding side walls for the slots, so that a seat of the correct contour for the reception of the spike is provided and is completely filled by the spike when the latter is in its rail engaging position.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is:

1. A railway tie comprising spaced T-bars of which the flanges constitute the base, blocks carried at the ends of the T-bars and consisting of a plurality of laminas of which the webs of the T-bars are the intermediate laminae, and bearing plates spanning the blocks, the laminee adjacent the webs ofthe T-bars being recessed to provide spike engaging seats which at their lower extremities terminate in divergent slots.

2. A railway tie having a block of laminar construction of which intermediate laminas are recessed to provide a vertical slot terminating in divergent slots, the stock intervening between the divergent slots defining a` wedge, and a spike split longitudinally for a portion of its length to define parallel arms spread and directed into the divergent slots by the wedge when the spike is driven into the slot.

3. A railway tie having a block of laminar construction of which intermediate laminas are recessed to provide a vertical slot terminating in divergent slots, the stock intervening between the divergent slots defining a wedge, and a spike split longitudinally for a portion of its length to define parallel arms spread and directed into the divergent slots by the wedge when the spike is driven into the slot, one wall of each divergent slot being roughened and the faces of the arms of the spike engaging said roughened walls being similarly roughened.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature.

GEORGE F. A. OCHS. 

